June 9, 2016: Optimized! Day 4 with Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White, Jason Willett & MC Schmidt, Buttress O’Kneel, Osymyso, Nick the Bard, John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV from Monty Hall (skype letspaintwfmu), Dina Kelberman + evening Monty Hall show!
12:00pm Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White - A Thought Experiment
What do we talk about when we talk about talking about things? Where do elephants come from? What’s up? These are questions we ask ourselves but not usually out loud for fear of being labeled a person with unanswerable questions. But in Hearty’s world, all questions are asked and then quickly forgotten as Hearty attempts to trick people into loving themselves and others through the art of confusion.
Hearty White lives and doesn’t work in Lexington, KY, birthplace of Richard Hell. His radio non-career spans decades. He loves you in theory.
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12:00pm Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White -...
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
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Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, ...
12.30pm Jason Willett and MC Schmidt - Optimism Show
willett and derek & clive
willett & schmidt
bert kaempfert: watusi trumpets
willett, schmidt {bobby mcferrin}
willett edit: happy talk
willett {bobby mcferrin} {ornette coleman} schmidt
willett & schmidt {mike curb congregation)
mr. tap toe
sublime elevator music
jason willett is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering and many more. His record label, Megaphone, initially set out to issue work by punkish Rock in Opposition-derived performers like The Work, Fred Frith, the Molecules, Matmos, Tim Hodgkinson and Jac Berrocal but became largely a venue for Willett's own collaborative music. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance,Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye & his various pet ducks.
Based in Baltimore, M.C. Schmidt is one half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with Terry Riley, Bjork, The Kronos Quartet, Peter Rehberg, the INA/GRM, Rrose, Marshall Allen, Horse Lords, People Like Us, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antony Hegarty, William Basinski and many more.
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12.30pm Jason Willett and MC Schmidt - Optimi...
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
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Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, ...
1.00pm Buttress O’Kneel - Optimise or Die!
Buttress O’Kneel is a plunderphonic culture-vandal from Australia who has been mixing, mashing and morphing found-sound since 1998. Honestly, she’s really too old for this shit, but it’s sort of too late to stop now. Her Frankensteinian sound-mangling activities have been written about in several academic texts, so she must be doing something right, or worthwhile, or something, surely. Please, let it all mean something. Please.
Will you optimise? Or will you die? Or both? For her “OPTIMIZED!” piece, Buttress O’Kneel explores the concept of the evolutionary optimisation of the humyn organism: whether it be motivational, spiritual, technological, multi-dimensional, or just growing a freakin’ beak. Our culture seems to obsess over this kind of thing constantly: being better, faster, more capable, sleeker, smarter, upgrading until we die. And then what? These issues are explored with the irritating machine-gun editing and meticulous lack of overall cohesion that Ms O’Kneel is famous for.
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
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Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, ...
1.15pm Osymyso - Sadtimism
The relentless chasing of happiness and the insistence that we should always be optimistic no matter what can have the opposite effect and make us all sad. So people can be outwardly very happy when they're privately very sad, hence a happy themed mix that sounds miserable. You can't be happy by just stating that you are over and over. It's not meant to be a massive downer as I'm an optimistic person just that you can't force happiness or fake it, just be grateful when it comes and to make the most of it.
The mix is called Sadtimism which I don't think is a word anyone's used before. I thought of sadimism too but it's too close to sadism and I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression.
Osymyso has been doing his thing since the early 1990's, lots of sampling, sound collage and daft beats. His career highlights are now so long ago it's embarrassing to mention them, he's currently in the process of seeking out a new career highlight to talk about. Due to work commitments osymsyo is in an effective hibernation, some would be mistaken for thinking he's stopped producing idiotic music but some fresh recordings will emerge sooner or later and he's hoping you'll stumble across them one day as you bounce around inside the internet.
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1.15pm Osymyso - Sadtimism
The relentless chas...
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
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Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, ...
1.30pm Nick the Bard - Optimized
A (bad) Transformers fan-fic based around the delivery of a single line from the episode "Divide and Conquer". A line delivery I could never stand, even as a kid. Who had the episode on VHS. As one of only two Transformers tapes owned. That got watched over and over and over.
Nick the Bard started with WFMU in 2005, bringing along and leaving a mark with his own brand of stupid. He lives somewhere in the suburbs of New Jersey with his cat Barry, collecting action figures and instructional VHS tapes. Some have claimed him to be a wizard, others one of the few people that should be wearing a fez.
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12:00pm Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White - A Thought Experiment
What do we talk about when we talk about talking about things? Where do elephants come from? What’s up? These are questions we ask ourselves but not usually out loud for fear of being labeled a person with unanswerable questions. But in Hearty’s world, all questions are asked and then quickly forgotten as Hearty attempts to trick people into loving themselves and others through the art of confusion.
Hearty White lives and doesn’t work in Lexington, KY, birthplace of Richard Hell. His radio non-career spans decades. He loves you in theory.
https://wfmu.org/playlists/HA
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
12.30pm Jason Willett and MC Schmidt - Optimism Show
willett and derek & clive
willett & schmidt
bert kaempfert: watusi trumpets
willett, schmidt {bobby mcferrin}
willett edit: happy talk
willett {bobby mcferrin} {ornette coleman} schmidt
willett & schmidt {mike curb congregation)
mr. tap toe
sublime elevator music
jason willett is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering and many more. His record label, Megaphone, initially set out to issue work by punkish Rock in Opposition-derived performers like The Work, Fred Frith, the Molecules, Matmos, Tim Hodgkinson and Jac Berrocal but became largely a venue for Willett's own collaborative music. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance,Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye & his various pet ducks.
Based in Baltimore, M.C. Schmidt is one half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with Terry Riley, Bjork, The Kronos Quartet, Peter Rehberg, the INA/GRM, Rrose, Marshall Allen, Horse Lords, People Like Us, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antony Hegarty, William Basinski and many more.
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
1.00pm Buttress O’Kneel - Optimise or Die!
Buttress O’Kneel is a plunderphonic culture-vandal from Australia who has been mixing, mashing and morphing found-sound since 1998. Honestly, she’s really too old for this shit, but it’s sort of too late to stop now. Her Frankensteinian sound-mangling activities have been written about in several academic texts, so she must be doing something right, or worthwhile, or something, surely. Please, let it all mean something. Please.
Will you optimise? Or will you die? Or both? For her “OPTIMIZED!” piece, Buttress O’Kneel explores the concept of the evolutionary optimisation of the humyn organism: whether it be motivational, spiritual, technological, multi-dimensional, or just growing a freakin’ beak. Our culture seems to obsess over this kind of thing constantly: being better, faster, more capable, sleeker, smarter, upgrading until we die. And then what? These issues are explored with the irritating machine-gun editing and meticulous lack of overall cohesion that Ms O’Kneel is famous for.
http://buttressokneel.bandcamp.com/
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
1.15pm Osymyso - Sadtimism
The relentless chasing of happiness and the insistence that we should always be optimistic no matter what can have the opposite effect and make us all sad. So people can be outwardly very happy when they're privately very sad, hence a happy themed mix that sounds miserable. You can't be happy by just stating that you are over and over. It's not meant to be a massive downer as I'm an optimistic person just that you can't force happiness or fake it, just be grateful when it comes and to make the most of it.
The mix is called Sadtimism which I don't think is a word anyone's used before. I thought of sadimism too but it's too close to sadism and I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression.
Osymyso has been doing his thing since the early 1990's, lots of sampling, sound collage and daft beats. His career highlights are now so long ago it's embarrassing to mention them, he's currently in the process of seeking out a new career highlight to talk about. Due to work commitments osymsyo is in an effective hibernation, some would be mistaken for thinking he's stopped producing idiotic music but some fresh recordings will emerge sooner or later and he's hoping you'll stumble across them one day as you bounce around inside the internet.
https://soundcloud.com/osymyso
Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016”
a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
1.30pm Nick the Bard - Optimized
A (bad) Transformers fan-fic based around the delivery of a single line from the episode "Divide and Conquer". A line delivery I could never stand, even as a kid. Who had the episode on VHS. As one of only two Transformers tapes owned. That got watched over and over and over.
Nick the Bard started with WFMU in 2005, bringing along and leaving a mark with his own brand of stupid. He lives somewhere in the suburbs of New Jersey with his cat Barry, collecting action figures and instructional VHS tapes. Some have claimed him to be a wizard, others one of the few people that should be wearing a fez.
http://wfmu.org/playlists/NB
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2pm-3pm John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live from Monty Hall
Mr Let's Paint (John Kilduff) does it all! Multitasking his way through life...exercising, painting, cooking and taking your calls!
Taking your calls on Optimized! Live from Monty Hall at WFMU 6-10 June @2-3pm ESTSKYPE call now to: letspaintwfmu
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3-5pm - Repeat of Noon-2pm Programming
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